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A Game Of Snake On A LEGO Mechanical Computer (hackaday.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Right. This is at its core a mechanical computer. This is only a few changes away from doing stuff like calculating real world data

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It is calculating real-world data. It's just specialized and applied calculations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, but my hardware knowledge is real basic. Closest I get to stuff like that would be PLCs, but I'm not really an industrial guy.

Maybe as a hobby though